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    Murray McMurray hatchery???????

    The chicks are always so sweet!
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    ZONE 9 and FLORIDA GARDENING

    I miss the seasons in Canada the most, the changing leaves and wearing sweaters. As much as I love gardening the winter was a nice break to do other things. I love being able to eat something from the garden every day of the year. We can grow such a huge variety of fruits here it is really...
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    Murray McMurray hatchery???????

    A couple of my Bantam Dark Brahmas that I got last year from MM died and we sent one to UC Davis for an autopsy and the report found that the chicken died of a fungal infection that it had from birth. I noticed that this year they did not have Bantam Dark Brahmas in their catalog. Perhaps...
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    Murray McMurray hatchery???????

    I sent them a message about the roosters and got no reply. I ordered again this year and no roosters with my pullets.
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    ZONE 9 and FLORIDA GARDENING

    I moved form Canada to San Diego 10 years ago and it was a big learning curve in the garden. If the weather wasn't a big enough change I also have a huge slope. Watering is a challenge and only the strong plants survive some years. A combination of straw rolls around trees and lots of mulch...
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    Murray McMurray hatchery???????

    I have ordered from them 3 times and some of the birds are great and some are just ok. 2 of my orders had one dead chick, but California is very far from the hatchery. Last year I ordered pullets only and out of 33 chicks 7 were roosters so I was not very happy about that.
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    d'anver lovers,discuss the breed and post some pics!

    I got some Bearded Belgians and the cockerels are so aggressive. When I feed them they run up and attack my hands. Is this behavior common for the breed?
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    Chickens I Want!

    Very nice Birds.
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    Rainwater good or not ?

    I have been collecting rain water from the roof of my coop for 6 years and it works great. I have screened gutters and a double screened 50 gal drum and a gravity fed poultry basin. Our yard is on a hill so we needed to prevent all the run off from washing out the hill. We don't get much rain...
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    Tropical fruit plants anyone?

    We started with grafted trees. Good luck with your trees, some people never get fruit even with special attention. I am not concerned at all about the small crop of fruit. Living where we do some years are bad fruit years, being coastal and in the city there is a serious lack of bees some...
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    Tropical fruit plants anyone?

    It took around 8 years to bear fruit on our good tree, the other tree might get 10 fruit and some years none. Our tree is not very big, maybe 5 feet tall even after 11 or 12 years. We get 50 or so lychee every winter. We never get a frost here by the coast.
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    Tropical fruit plants anyone?

    We are in San Diego, most mornings I head out to work in the yard and grab breakfast from a tree. Not sure which Lychees we have 2 different cultivars. 5 or 6 types of Mango but only 1 or 2 gives good fruit. We are coastal and not enough heat for some fruit to be sweet.
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    feeding 7 month old girls table scraps, act like they are starving?

    When I walk outside with the scrap bucket all my hens come running and race me to the coop. Totally normal
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    Tropical fruit plants anyone?

    We have an orchard of rare/exotic fruit in the city, no fence and 20 free range chickens. Started planting 20+ years ago. We have lychee, mango, pomegranate, surnam cherry, cheramoya, rose apple, guavas, avocado, bananas, atemoya, allspice, citrus, stone fruits and many many other fruits. I am...
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    chicken poop as fertilizer

    I use it fresh in our orchard. We spread a bucket under each tree. It is very dry here in Southern California so by the time it rains the poop is not very fresh. We have been doing this as our only fertilizer for 7 years and our orchard has never looked better. When using in the garden I...
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